Package dependency problems

[Phil]

On 24/05/13 06:54, William Scott Lockwood III wrote:
> On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 3:48 PM, Phil <phil_lor at bigpond.com> wrote:
>> On 24/05/13 03:43, Nils Kassube wrote:
>>> Sabniveesu Shashank wrote:
>>>> On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 4:08 PM, Phil <phil_lor at bigpond.com> wrote:
>>>>> Thank you for reading my first posting to this list.
>>>>> Any attempt to install any package is prevented because of a list of
>>>>> dependencies.
>>>>> It has been suggested that I post the output of dpkg --configure -a
>>>>> and this is the result:
>>>>> phil at Asus:~$ sudo dpkg --configure -a
>>>>> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libc6:i386:
>>>>>    libc6:i386 depends on debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0; however:
>>>>>     Package debconf is not installed.
>>>>>     Package debconf-2.0 is not installed.
>>>>>    libc6:i386 depends on libgcc1; however:
>>>>>     Package libgcc1 is not installed.
>>>>> dpkg: error processing libc6:i386 (--configure):
>>>>>    dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
>>>>> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of multiarch-
>>> support:
>>>>>    multiarch-support depends on libc6 (>= 2.13-5); however:
>>>>>     Package libc6:i386 is not configured yet.
>>>>> dpkg: error processing multiarch-support (--configure):
>>>>>    dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
>>>>> Errors were encountered while processing:
>>>>>    libc6:i386
>>>>>    multiarch-support
>>>>> Is this a known problem?
>>>>> --
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> Phil
>>>> Use 'sudo apt-get install -f'. Restart your system. This should solve
>>>> any missing/broken packages
>>>> As for the reason, It depends on what you recently installed and
>>>> incompletely uninstalled..
>>> No, that is unfortunately not the solution - I had suggested that
>>> command previously (on Kubuntu-users) and it didn't work either. The
>>> problem is the missing debconf package which seems to be vital to
>>> install anything. It seems like Phil has the problem that he can't
>>> install debconf because debconf is missing.
>> As Nils said, he had already made that suggestion and so, if it helps, here
>> is the result:
>> phil at Asus:~$ sudo apt-get install -f
>> [sudo] password for phil:
>> Reading package lists... Done
>> Building dependency tree
>> Reading state information... Done
>> Correcting dependencies... Done
>> The following extra packages will be installed:
>>    apt-utils debconf debconf-i18n dpkg gcc-4.7-base libapt-inst1.5
>> libapt-pkg4.12 libbz2-1.0
>>    libdb5.1 libgcc1 liblocale-gettext-perl liblzma5 libselinux1 libstdc++6
>>    libtext-charwidth-perl libtext-iconv-perl libtext-wrapi18n-perl perl-base
>> tar zlib1g
>> Suggested packages:
>>    xz-utils debconf-doc debconf-utils whiptail dialog gnome-utils
>> libterm-readline-gnu-perl
>>    libgtk2-perl libnet-ldap-perl libqtgui4-perl libqtcore4-perl apt bzip2
>> ncompress
>> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>>    apt-utils debconf debconf-i18n dpkg gcc-4.7-base libapt-inst1.5
>> libapt-pkg4.12 libbz2-1.0
>>    libdb5.1 libgcc1 liblocale-gettext-perl liblzma5 libselinux1 libstdc++6
>>    libtext-charwidth-perl libtext-iconv-perl libtext-wrapi18n-perl perl-base
>> tar zlib1g
>> 0 upgraded, 20 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
>> 2 not fully installed or removed.
>> Need to get 0 B/6,630 kB of archives.
>> After this operation, 22.4 MB of additional disk space will be used.
>> Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
>> E: Cannot get debconf version. Is debconf installed?
>> debconf: apt-extracttemplates failed: No such file or directory
>> dpkg: regarding .../libbz2-1.0_1.0.6-4_i386.deb containing libbz2-1.0:i386,
>> pre-dependency problem:
>>   libbz2-1.0 pre-depends on multiarch-support
>>    multiarch-support is unpacked, but has never been configured.
>> dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libbz2-1.0_1.0.6-4_i386.deb
>> (--unpack):
>>   pre-dependency problem - not installing libbz2-1.0:i386
>> Errors were encountered while processing:
>>   /var/cache/apt/archives/libbz2-1.0_1.0.6-4_i386.deb
>> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>
> I suggest doing a `sudo apt-get purge libbz2-1.0:i386` followed by
> `sudo apt-get -f install` to ensure your system is in a consistent
> state. Then you can attempt to reinstall the "bad" package.

Thanks for the suggestion but still no go.

phil at Asus:~$ sudo apt-get purge libbz2-1.0:i386
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package 'libbz2-1.0' is not installed, so not removed
You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  libc6 : Depends: debconf (>= 0.5) but it is not going to be installed or
                   debconf-2.0
          Depends: libgcc1 but it is not going to be installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or 
specify a solution).

-- 
Regards,
Phil